The Mets had scratched, using a makeshift pitching alignment, to remain in this game on Friday and there was McNeil to detonate the last needed fireworks barrage.
Day: July 4, 2025
Hamas said it had given a “positive” response to the latest proposal for a ceasefire, though it said negotiations were needed on how to implement it.
At the White House on the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump held a “Big Beautiful Bill” signing, complete with B-2 bombers.
The most sweeping policy achievement of his second term so far includes tax cuts, eliminates taxes on tip and overtime, slashes Medicaid funding, food benefits, and clean energy incentives, and is expected to add $3 trillion to the national debt.
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Trump hailed it as “the greatest victory yet” in his remarks before the signing on Friday. “It’s the most popular bill ever signed in the history of our country,” he stated.
Earlier in the day, Americans nationwide took to the streets to protest the signing at “Free America” demonstrations. About 300 events are listed on the Women’s March website. Participants are speaking out against what they see as an authoritarian president who works for the wealthiest citizens.
The House passed the bill Thursday by a narrow margin, 218-214. All Democrats voted against it, and every Republican voted for it, except Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie and Pennsylvania Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick. New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries tried to delay the vote by talking for eight hours and 45-minutes, breaking the House record for longest floor speech. The bill passed the Senate earlier in the week after Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote.
Even though public opinion of the “Big Beautiful Bill” is looking ugly so far, some experts say Trump comes out seeming stronger than ever. In an article published after the House vote, TIME summed up the significance of the bill’s passage as “a moment when President Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party was tested — and he won.” Longtime Republican pollster Whit Ayres told TIME that Trump’s control over the GOP “is as close to total as any President has ever had over his own political party.”
Whether the American public comes to see the “Big Beautiful Bill” as “beautiful” remains to be seen. A June 26 Quinnipiac poll found 29% of voters support the bill, 55% opposed it, and 16% did not have an opinion. What’s clear is that Democrats will hold the bill against Trump during the 2026 midterm election campaign season.
Trump met the July 4 deadline he demanded.
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law at a Fourth of July party on the White House lawn Friday — moments after fighter jets and B-2 bombers soared overhead in celebration of the recent bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. “After that spectacular display of American power, let me just…
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A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American — with them raging the socialist pol is a “fraud” and “trickster.”
This marks the first time Liam and Noel Gallagher have shared the same stage since 2009.
A federal judge on Friday briefly halted deportations of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan, sending the case to another judge, in Boston, the day after the Supreme Court greenlighted their removal.
At least 13 people were dead after flash flooding hit south-central Texas early Friday, officials said, with more than 20 girls at a summer camp still unaccounted for.”About 23″ girls were unaccounted for from Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River, which rose 26 feet (eight meters) in 45 minutes overnight, Patrick added.